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(He can; it is Mr. Behrman's own "End of Summer.") But even after two hits, his complexion remains bad, he fcels that his social charm is forced, l.nd he can never get the women he wants. [n Salzburg, swarming with Na7is, Stanley discovers that he belongs to a despised and persecuted group, and being Jewish becomes for him like Stendhal's pistol shot at a concert- a coarse matter impossible to ignore. Stanley never arrives at any good solu- tion for being Jewish without believing in God (he seems to have no gift fOI re 1igion ), and I am not certain how Behrlnan intends us to read Stanley's final lss lult on the problem of his] ew- ish identity-as despair or as a brave new start. The novel documents rather than argues about the fact that Stan- Ie) lives in an epoch preoccupied vvith a stupid question cal1ed nationalism, racism, or ethnicity and that to a stupid question there is no intelligent answer. 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